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Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
A research project of the Institute for AdvancedSustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, Germany,implemented in five countries: Benin, Burkina Faso,Ethiopia, Kenya and India.
Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security
The research project cooperates with the “soil protec-tion and rehabilitation for food security” program ofDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenar-beit (GIZ) GmbH and receives financial support fromthe German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperati-on and Development (BMZ).
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Contacts
Project coordinatorDr. Anne Flohr [email protected]
Co-CoordinatorCarolin [email protected]
Case studies of Benin and Burkina FasoLarissa Stiem [email protected]
Case study of EthiopiaGirum Getachew [email protected]
Case study of KenyaSerah Kiragu [email protected]
Case study of IndiaKeerthi Kiran [email protected]
Project administrationKatrin [email protected]
IASS PotsdamInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e. V.Berliner Straße 13014467 PotsdamGermany
Telephone: +49 331-28822-427
www.iass-potsdam.de/en
Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) e. V.
Founded in 2009, the IASS is an international, interdisciplinary hybrid between a researchinstitute and a think tank, located in Potsdam, Germany. The publicly funded institutepromotes research and dialogue between science, politics and society on developing path-ways to global sustainability. The IASS focuses on topics such as sustainability governanceand economics, new technologies for energy production and resource utilisation, andEarth system challenges like climate change, air pollution, and soil management.
The accompanying research ‘Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security‘
Soil degradation and desertification constitute significant challenges for smallholder farmers. Globally, 42 % of the poor are affected by soil degradation. Food insecurity as a result of declining yields is a direct consequence.
Sustainable land management techniques – such as green manure or agroforestry – have long been known. Nevertheless, in many agricultural contexts, unsustainable land use practices still prevail. A large number of studies have investigated and identified the factors that are constraining sustainable land management. Among these are limited access to markets or financing, insecure land tenure, and insufficient rural infrastructure and services.
The accompanying research of IASS intends to go one step beyond these findings. Its focus will be on identifying entry points and processes through which the known challenges to sustainable land management may be overcome in the respective local contexts. In this regard, processes of social learning, dialogue, and collective action will play a central role. In accordance with the transdisciplinary approach pursued by IASS, the accompanying research is implemented in close cooperation with knowledge holders and practitioners from a variety of sectors, for example, with the farmers affected by land degradation or with the extension service agents supporting them.
The IASS project will be implemented between 2015 and 2017 in five countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, and India.
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The Global Soil Forum is dedicated to achieving responsible land governance and sustainablesoil management worldwide. Through our activities, we create a common forum for discus-sion and debate amongst diverse stakeholders, thus facilitating the exchange and generation of contextualized knowledge with practicalrelevance. Together with leading actors in the field, we initiate processes which foster application of this co-created knowledge on the ground. Aligned with the mission of the IASS, we strive for societal transformation through a transdisciplinary research approach.
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Biophysical context
Equitable access to use of (land) resources, short- and long-term profit-ability as well as durable soil health should be pursued as simultaneous objectives of sustainable land management. Only such a comprehensive approach can ensure that technological soil protection measures serve food security in the long term. Achieving these objectives depends on factors such as availability of technologies or access to effective extension services. The impacting factors will have to be identified separately for each concrete locality as they depend on the respective biophysical, socio-economic, cultural and political context. The accompanying research in its country case studies, thus, focuses on identifying the influential factors and on developing pathways and processes for overcoming hindrances to sustainable land management.
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